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Assuming she doesn't rape him, then nothing. Same with guys: Though anime plays it up, a guy flirting with a girl in an alley wouldn't actually get arrested unless he made it clear he tried to rape her.

Here's one for those who loves techdesc. This one is for the rectonned Noa:

Spoiler for Noa (Recton-1):

= Minerva Noa =

The Minerva Noa (or simply “Noa”) is, despite its first name, the product of technological fusion of three distinctive classes of machines: The Minerva, Infinite Stratos and the Formula Frontal. To this end, the Noa can be said to be the sigma unit, a symbol of coexistence amongst various classes of present technology and thus, possessing features from all three lineages of units.

For start, the Noa deviates from the Minerva’s standard armor-mounting procedures. Incorporating digital storage and deployment technology from the Infinite Stratos, the Noa is digitally stored inside a special bodysuit with glowing crystalline-like panels on various parts of the limbs and around the user’s neck. Each of the panels digitally stores a particular armor part of the Noa (E.g. Glowing panels on the suit’s shoulders store the Noa’s pauldrons), granting the unit a variation of the IS’ Partial-Deployment capability.

Technology from the Formula Frontal is represented with the Noa’s unique shield equipment, known as the Lazurite. The Lazurite incorporates SA (Self-Assembly) equipment technology which allows it to store a pair of SA remote attack bits alongside the Noa’s primary melee weapon, the Susanoo, which also an SA weapon itself.

The Noa retains the Minerva’s standard power supply system via multiple miniature particle turbines built into various parts of its armor.

For the core, the Noa’s central processing unit manifests itself in form of an upgraded incarnation of the Formula Frontal’s Iwaki Unit, known simply as NExT Core, which resides within the upper chest portion of the user’s bodysuit. “NExT Core” is initially made as a placeholder name but due the highly-experimental nature of the Noa, the name remains, representing Next-generation Experimental Tessellation Core which also reflects its purpose to manage the complicated systems of the Noa.

The Noa sports limited but potentially lethal weaponry to allow for decisive attacks:

- Susanoo, the Noa’s primary weapon, a huge single-edged sword. The blade is decorated with thin panels that emit blue light when active. The panels serve as a device that allows the user the manipulate particles when in use, particularly projecting a crescent wave of ionized particles when the sword is swung. Being an SA Weapon, the Susanoo is stored in parts within the Lazurite shield and assembles inside the shield itself before the user deploys it.

- Stout Rifle. A long, slim dual-muzzle rifle that’s capable of rapidly switching between solid and ionized-particle beam ammunition for ranged combat. Its particle ammunition mode is capable of charging ion particle beams as well as sustained particle beam streams while the solid ammunition mode is capable of high-rate semi-automatic fire. The weapon is stored on a magnetic holster on the unit’s back when not in use.

The Stout Rifle’s handle is designed such that it will be held in a similar manner as a lance. Solid ammunition is magazine-fed with each magazine holding 30 rounds of high-velocity armor-piercing projectiles while particle ammunition is generated by in-built dedicated particle turbines. Due to a unique composition of ionized particles generated by the turbines, its charged particle beam is capable of causing a chain reaction upon impact which gradually vaporizes the target surface by dematerializing it into dissipating particles.

The Noa does not have a Closed Form. However, it is still digitally-stored within the pilot’s bodysuit, negating the need of a dedicated Mounting Platform which has long been a standard shared by the predecessor Minerva units.

Other features:
- Advanced passive barrier system carried over from the Minerva but with the added capability to manipulate the form of the barrier itself. While the predecessor Minerva units can concentrate barrier power on the single point, they’re still limited to the shape of the standard geodesic sphere that encompasses the unit. The Noa has the ability to concentrate barrier power in the shape of a shield atop the Lazurite shield itself, allowing for much additional and greater defensive power.

= Atmospheric exit/re-entry feature. The Noa deploys layers of positron outside its protective barrier which disintegrates the air it comes into contact with, eliminating any forms of air resistance as the Noa paves its own way into outer space or initiating re-entry where it prevents the Noa from burning up due to atmospheric friction.

= Moonlight Dance. A particle-discharge system that involves the Noa expelling huge amounts of ions that allows the Athena to recover its power, through the electrostatic panels integrated into its own armor, at the expense of the Noa exhausting its own.

= Gosei Rave, informally-named combination attack pattern of the Noa and the Athena. The term is coined by Inami and Tsurugi, the respective pilots of the two units.

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that leaves me scratching my head. That must be the end of all end units O.o

Not quite the end. :3

More like the first three-way-hybrid prototype unit of its kind. Feels as though I'm setting up for an Athena sequel but that's still way far off.

Once I had a chat with my girl about the universe, and we came up with this theory that there's thousands of other universes out there which are merely dimensions, copies of the same world we live in, only advancing in different ways and time.

I was thinking to have Athena explore that, being a space-faring IS with the ability to enter hyperspace. At every hyperspace jump, the pilot may catch a glimpse of another version of the IS-verse (Akin to paying a visit to one of the countless of other AU fanfics.)

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Not sure if you're mixing up the Noa and the Athena. The former is the three-way-hybrid unit. The latter is pure IS from the ground up and has the ability to enter hyperspace.

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Story debut-wise, yes. The Athena comes before Noa. Though the two units are constructed about the same time, only the Noa's pilot wasn't exactly in a conscious state when the two units are completed.

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End game machine at the story's... well, end. While it does sound apt but still, it feels a little underutilized. There's a battle planned for when Athena and Noa make their respective debuts but it's beginning to sound more and more like curb-stomp battles the more I think about it.

While I'm under the impression that having a powerful machine from the get-go is an instant yellow card, hence I start low and have the machines advance as the story progress, I still can't shake off the flaky feeling.

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